Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the year 380 ... There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world. The Catholic News Agency earlier ...

Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the year 380 ... There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world. The Catholic News Agency earlier ...

The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries. A ...

The Catholic church’s response was to issue a Bull of Excommunication. And at the same time, you had the Holy Roman Emperor and the Holy Roman Empire, which was a huge conglomeration of regions ...

Beginning in the 15th century, Portuguese monarchs sought the approval and assistance of the Popes of the Roman Catholic Church to advance their territorial ambitions in Africa. In response to ...